3 Reasons Why You Should Be Using Glass Coffee Mugs

It`s time to switch to reusable glass coffee mugs and quit single-use plastic cups!

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Everyone has their morning beverage. Whether it is tea, coffee, matcha, or whatever else gets them up-and-moving.

Every morning.

Every morning is a lot of mornings, and when it comes to waste, every morning can start adding up, especially if you are using disposable coffee cups.  

Consider glass mugs as an eco-friendly, zero waste option for holding your morning pick-me-up. Each sip will bring our world one step closer to sustainability.

Below are 13 reasons why you should consider using glass coffee mugs, not just for the planet, but also for yourself.

1. Because You Can Reuse Them

The most compelling reason for using a glass coffee mug is that glass coffee mugs are 100% reusable.

The waste from using single-use coffee cups can really add up. Consider, if you are buying coffee out every day you are using 365 single-use coffee cups a year.

And then just throwing them out.

Even if you are only buying coffee once every other day, that is 182 coffee cups a year.

If that is the impact of one person using single-use coffee cups, consider what the impact is of every adult in America who drinks coffee.

According to a survey conducted by the National Coffee Association, 83% of adults, people over the age of 18,  in America drink coffee. According to the 2018 US census, there are 253,768,092 adults in America. That means that 210,627,516 adults in America drink coffee.

Of course, how much coffee those adults drink varies, ranging from a few cups a day to a few cups a week. Still, if we assume that on average adults drink a cup of coffee every other day, the possible waste of single-use cups in total for America would be 38,334,300,000 wasted cups a year.

One study found that the number of single-use coffee cups being thrown into landfills could be as large as 54 billion a year.

Let me say that again.

54 BILLION CUPS.

Which is why it is so imperative that reusable coffee cups are used.

This doesn’t even account for how much coffee is drunk around the world. Over ten million tons of coffee is drank around the world every year.

The waste, if most of that coffee if not in reusable containers, is unfathomable.

The glass cup is completely reusable; you just fill it up with your beverage of choice, wash it out, and then use it the next day. Glass coffee mugs are durable, and do not degrade, so you do not have to worry about eventually needing to throw it out.

2. Because They are a Sustainable Option   

Glass coffee mugs are incredibly sustainable!

For starters, glass is an eco-friendly, all natural raw material that takes a very small carbon footprint to create. That carbon footprint is even smaller if the glass you are using is coming from recycled glass.

Glass, unlike other materials that mugs can be made of, like ceramic, can be recycled. Glass is one of the only 100% recyclable materials out there. Compared to making glass for the first time from raw materials, glass created from recycled glass reduces air pollution by 20% and related water pollution by 50%.

At some point you may be done with your glass mug.

Let’s say after years of use, you somehow chipped it.

You can then recycle your glass coffee mug again. Glass after all is 100% recyclable and can be endlessly reused. Your glass coffee mug could be turned into an array of other glass products- the material is that flexible!

Worried that your town may not have the means for glass recycling?

Worry not!

Almost every place in America, and every developing country for that matter, has some kind of infrastructure for recycling glass.

Therefore if you are looking for the most sustainable option for carrying around your morning brew, a glass coffee mug will be perfect for you!

3. Because Glass is Beautiful  

We all have done it.

We all have gone to a Starbucks, maybe it was before school, maybe it was before work, and purchased a beverage.

Whether it was a venti or a short, an iced caramel macchiato or black coffee, we didn’t care. 

What mattered was the Starbucks’ label on the outside of the cup.

Whatever that label may have meant to us, whether it was a student showing off their bougie beverage, or a coworker showing off their great taste in coffee, in the end, it was us trying to flaunt something.

Looking back though, through an environmental lens, it is clear that it is not the label that mattered.

Rather, what mattered was what the label was on.

A single-use cup.

That symbolized not great coffee, or expensive taste, but rather more trash in our landfills.

More unnecessary waste.  

Glass coffee mugs are beautiful because of the sustainability that they symbolize.

They are also beautiful, because, well, glass is beautiful.

Glass is much more aesthetic than a plastic or paper cup could ever be.

What is more elegant? Flimsy plastic and soggy paper? Or a beautifully crafted glass mug?

The choice should be easy.

What you should be showing off is your glass coffee mugs. Not because you are trying to prove something but because you are trying to convince others to join the movement to reduce the waste in our landfills.

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